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Sunday, November 28, 2010

I'd like to take a minute to thank everyone who has joined us this year. I can't believe how quickly time has passed, but we're at the end of this term. We've been truly inspired by your cards, and your participation and we hope that you will continue to grace us with your cards in the upcoming year. Now, onto this weeks challenge. This week Peggy has created another fabulous sketch for us to use. Please keep in mind that the challenges each week are optional. The idea is just to help you create a Christmas card each week so that you'll have a good stack finished by the time December rolls around. Here is Peggy's sketch.

Our last guest designer for this year is Barb. Here is a bit about her, in her own words.

Hello everyone, my name is Barb. I have been married for 25 years, to a very patient man and we have two beautiful daughters who also like to scrap and make cards. We share our home with 2 cockatiels, and a very spoiled little doggie named Maxwell William. I have had a love affair with paper since I was a young girl, so it was no surprise to anyone when I started scrapbooking. Eventually, I moved on to digital scrapping, but found that I really missed my paper. So three years ago, I began card crafting and I LOVE it! I am thrilled to be chosen as a Guest Designer for Sparkle’s Christmas Card Challenge. I really like the idea of creating Christmas cards all year. I turn on Christmas music in my studio, light a Christmas-y scented candle to help set the mood and then I create away!

Please link directly to the blog post or gallery page where we can view/comment on your creation and not just the generic link to your blog. Generic blog links will be disabled or deleted. To get the full URL, click the title of your blog post (which will load a page that has just that post on it), then copy and paste the URL.

Don't forget to post a comment so we know you added a card! If you are uploading to an online gallery such as Splitcoast, please use the tag SCCC52, so that we can all enjoy your cards.

We hope you'll be as inspired by us as we are by you, and join us for this last challenge of the 2010 year. There are only a couple weeks left until Christmas is upon us!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Thanks to all of you who played in last week's shaped card challenge. There were a lot of fabulous entries. Are you getting excited watching your stack of cards grow? I counted all of my Christmas cards this past week and I have 72. Woo Hoo!

Let's talk about this week's challenge.Use lightpink, grey, orange and white.﻿What a great color combo. So fun and fresh.

I'm also happy to introduce this week's guest designer, Kateri. Here's a bit about her.

My name is Kateri Boshart. I am a mom of an almost 4 year old girl and almost 4 month old boy. I'm also a home health aide. To say the least, I'm busy! I do not consider myself artistic at all but I do LOVE to craft. Paper crafting is my favorite. I was asked when I started paper crafting and I honestly cannot remember, it seems I've always been coloring, cutting, and pasting! I guess I really started to make cards when I was working with my friend Lynda. I was teaching at the time and had four classroom aides. We began our own weekly challenge, usually based on papers. Every Friday we would have our co-workers vote on a winner. The winner would get scratch-off lottery tickets - it was a lot of fun! From that, I moved onto online challenges and blogland and as they say....the rest is history!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Wow! We're totally amazed at the awesome turn out last week. You guys are rockin' those Christmas cards! We are so inspired and thankful to have all of you join us each week.

Before we get to this weeks challenge, we have a winner from last weeks entries. Thanks to Random.org, Congrats to #89 - Pinky! Please send me an email (onecraftychica@gmail.com) with your address so that I can get your stamp out to you.

This weeks challenge is to create a shaped card. By shaped card, I mean something other than a traditional square or rectangle. Remember that any winter/Christmas card is good for our challenges, we just want everyone to have fun and be ready to mail out cards with out the last minute rush.

This week we have one of my favorite people joining us as our guest designer. I'm pretty sure most of you know her, from her weekly sketch challenges on her blog,I {heart} To Stamp. Please welcome Jen del Muro! Here is a bit about Jen, in her own words.

My name is Jen del Muro and I am an avid rubber stamper and paper crafter. I don’t know when my love for paper and all things paper related started, but it has grown from just a love to a complete obsession and {almost} daily activity for me. I was introduced to the Stampin’ Up line of products a few years back and ever since then, I have been hooked on stamping. While SU! was my first love, it certainly wasn’t my last. I am glad that I have been introduced to several lines of stamps and stamping/paper crafting products.

My favorite stamping site of all-time is Splitcoaststampers.com. The first time I ventured onto this site, I think that I spent almost 4 hours just looking in awe at all the uploaded creations. In the fall of 2006, I got a very special e-mail from Julie Ebersole inviting me to be a part of the Splitcoast Design Team, affectionately know as the Dirty Dozen. Me, a Dirty Girl???…you bet I said “yes” {very emphatically!} to that invitation. I am so honored to have been a part of the “Dirt Pile.” All of those girls are so amazingly talented, not to mention so sweet…and quite witty! Since my time on the pile, several doors have opened up for me and I hope to continue progressing in the stamping community through my design work and publications. While I won’t call anyone my idol, I will certainly say there are a bunch of talented women {and men!!} out there that I can look up to in respect to those aspects of stamping.

As for the more personal side of me, I am married to the most wonderful man in the world, Tony. We live in North Texas with our beautiful daughter and adorable son. Our house is also called home by our 2 dogs, Abby and Cooper, and a sly black cat, Gracie. Right now I am a stay at home mom, but look forward to re-entering the workplace at some point in time {well, maybe}.

Here is Jen's card for this weeks challenge. Isn't this darling?! I love the little girl. And, it may just be coincidence, but Jen's sketch challenge this week is sponsored by our very own Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps. You should run over there to see how fantastic the sketch is this week.

Please link directly to the blog post or gallery pager where we can view/comment on your creation and not just the generic link to your blog. Generic blog links will be disabled or deleted. To get the full URL, click the title of your blog post (which will load a page that has just that post on it), then copy and paste the URL.

Don't forget to post a comment so we know you added a card! If you are uploading to an online gallery such as Splitcoast, please use the tag SCCC50, so that we can all enjoy your cards. We've only got about 40 days left until Christmas. How many cards do you have made now? :)

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Happy Sunday everyone! You all have amazed us again with your amazing cards this week, thank you so much for playing along with us!

Before I get started with this weeks challenge, we want to wish Steph a very happy birthday today! Hope you have a marvelous day and thanks for keeping us elves under control!

This week we have an inspiration picture to help get you started on your cards this week. Remember that any winter/Christmas card is good for our challenges, we just want everyone to have fun and be ready to mail out cards with out the last minute rush.

It is also the first challenge of the month which means there is a prize, a Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp for one random participant! Good luck everyone!

This week our lovely guest designer is Brandy! Here is a little bit about her in her own words!

I have been a paper crafter at heart since I was a little girl. When my mom would go visit her girlfriends I often brought along my craft box. A cardboard box with a removable lid that I had cut leg holes in the side of so I could flip it over and use the bottom as a work surface. I would pack all of my craft supplies... crayons, construction paper, scissors, glue, my prized self inking stamps and stickers. LOL. So it's no surprise that I am now a full blown paper crafting addict. I mostly design cards these days, but I do have a wonderful family that consists of the most amazing man I`ve ever met and 3 energetic little boys ages 3, 1 & 1 that are loving subjects should I get the urge to scrapbook!

Please link directly to the blog post or gallery pager where we can view/comment on your creation and not just the generic link to your blog. Generic blog links will be disabled or deleted. To get the full URL, click the title of your blog post (which will load a page that has just that post on it), then copy and paste the URL.

Don't forget to post a comment so we know you added a card! If you are uploading to an online gallery such as Splitcoast, please use the tag SCCC49, so that we can all enjoy your cards.